Boston immediately hugely upgrades their center position and goes a little sideways with Rondo for Jennings, while dumping Gerald Wallace's contract. Bradley and Green are competent enough of defenders to complement Jennings' sub-par defense, and the Celtics can add two lottery picks this year to that group.

Detroit gets trades a terrible shooter for one that's almost as bad but less likely to actually shoot. They pair Rondo with Smith, hopefully increasing the happiness (and effort level) of both. They get a better defender with Rondo, a 3-and-d player in Johnson, and a pick in exchange for taking on the (nearly) useless Gerald Wallace and giving up a franchise center.

There's a good article about Sheed the coach on Bad Boy's com. With good pictures.
Also in this weeks Sports Illustrated is a good read on DeAndre Jordan (poor Brandon, of course that is mentioned). He speaks very highly of Chauncey, says he was a huge influence on his game and maturity.

As a former Knick, I expected Jackson to end up there. This is good for Detroit, it means we still have a chance to bring in Zeke or Laimbeer. If we're going to be bad, we may as well be entertaining.

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Funny as both Kobe and Magic made a big stink in yesterdays LA Times criticizing Buss Jr for letting Phil get away. Six titles in Chicago and five in LA, but these two and some other die hards around here believe the Lakers "own" the rights to Jackson...well maybe Jeannie Buss does.. Somebody probably had to remind Kobe that Jackson's NBA roots were with the Knicks before Kobe was born...

No, the owner didn't honor the autonomy over personnel he once promised Walsh. Of course, Walsh arrived in New York, his hometown, with 11 fewer rings than Jackson has. Thomas was once granted control of basketball decisions, but after Jackson rejected his offer to coach the Knicks, Isiah preferred hiring either P.J. Carlesimo or Bill Laimbeer over Larry Brown. The suckers who hand-delivered Brown to Dolan authored a 23-59 disaster and started a war between coach and owner that cost Brown a piece of his dignity and Dolan a cool $18.5 million.

Way back when, Thomas admitted that he knew he couldn't last for long with Brown, and that they would someday turn on each other and fight to the organizational death. Isiah figured if they could win a title together first, just like the warring Mike Keenan and Neil Smith had won the Stanley Cup for the Rangers, it would be worth it (they didn't, and it wasn't).

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I didn't realize that Isiah was considering hiring Laimbeer to coach the Knicks. He must be a good leader if another top dog on the Bad Boys would consider handing him the reins.

I always suspected that Joe felt threatened by the idea and maybe felt like his desk was messed up a little from their playing days.

A quick run through the first-ever tweets of the official accounts associated with the 30 NBA teams reveals that opening salvos tended to fall into one of TK categories:

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And then actually only goes through 29 teams, leaving out, yes you guessed it, Detroit Pistons.

FWIW, this was the first ever tweet from Pistons:Detroit Pistons✔ @DetroitPistonsFollow
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